From: "Tony Ellis" 
Subject: (urth) Re: Digest from  urth@urth.net
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:09:02 +0100

Jeff Wilson wrote:
>How do you explain the remarkable similarity of form and the ability
>to interbreed, then?

Remarkable similarity of form to, and ability to interbreed with, human
beings, you mean? The explanation is that abos -are- human beings. They are
the descendants of prehistoric colonists from Earth. Wolfe goes out of his
way to prime us with this idea in all three novellas in 5HC, and that's good
enough for me.



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